Anti/vax : reframing the vaccination controversy

Summary: "Anti/Vax argues that vaccine skepticism is not an outlier position that can be eradicated with scientific literacy; rather, it encompasses a variety of concerns that permeate modern cultures and shed light on a pervasive unease with medicine, pharmaceutical companies, and bureaucratic decision making"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781501735622
ISBN: 1501735624
Physical Description: print
xiv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : vaccination stories and why I wrote this book -- So what bothers you about vaccines? -- Immune to reason -- Whom do you trust? -- Being a responsible parent -- Is vaccine refusal a form of science denial? -- What are facts and how do we trust them? -- Medicalization and biomedicalization -- Antimedicine in theory and practice -- Viral imaginations -- Anti/vax.